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San Francisco Opera's The Handmaid's Tale offers hope in a totalitarian world

By Lois Silverstein, 14 September 2024

John Fulljames directs a new production of Poul Ruders' uncompromising operatic take on Margaret Atwood’s celebrated novel.

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San Francisco

16 Sep 2024

San Francisco Opera's The Handmaid's Tale offers hope

By Lois Silverstein

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Aix-en-Provence

Musically peerless but battering: Wozzeck at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence

By David Karlin, 07 July 2023

Sir Simon Rattle and the LSO give an orchestral performance to remember, with a fine singing cast, but Simon McBurney's staging dials the bleakness to maximum too early.

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Aix-en-Provence

08 Jul 2023

Musically peerless but battering: Wozzeck in Aix

By David Karlin

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Glasgow

Fulljames' police thriller Carmen closes Scottish Opera season

By David Smythe, 16 May 2023

Fine singing from Justina Gringytė, Alok Kumar and Hye-Youn Lee lead a strong supporting cast, with Dane Lam conducting the Scottish Opera Orchestra and Chorus on top form.

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Glasgow

17 May 2023

Fulljames' police thriller Carmen closes Scottish Opera season

By David Smythe

Amsterdam

The Rake’s Progress in the here and now at Dutch National Opera

By Nicolas Nguyen, 06 February 2018

Virtuoso modern stagecraft and a fine cast combine in a very enjoyable, present-day Rake’s Progress.

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Amsterdam

08 Feb 2018

The Rake’s Progress in the here and now at Dutch National Opera

By Nicolas Nguyen

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Aix-en-Provence

McBurney paints The Rake's Progress onto a blank canvas in Aix

By Mark Pullinger, 05 July 2017

Simon McBurney's production of The Rake's Progress for Festival d'Aix-en-Provence begins with the equivalent of a blank page – a simple white paper box onto which he pours his inspiration.

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Aix-en-Provence

06 Jul 2017

McBurney paints a blank canvas in Aix

By Mark Pullinger

Leeds

A real feast: Opera North's witty and perceptive Hansel and Gretel

By Richard Wilcocks, 02 February 2017

Opera North's Hansel and Gretel at the Grand Theatre Leeds, directed by Edward Dick, is witty and perceptive, with some insights provide by Freudian psychanalysis

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Leeds

03 Feb 2017

A real feast: Opera North's Hansel and Gretel

By Richard Wilcocks

Leeds

Snowflakes and sunflowers: rare Rimsky-Korsakov opera revived by Opera North

By Mark Pullinger, 21 January 2017

Opera North's new production of The Snow Maiden is the first professional staging in the UK for over 60 years, although the magic is intermittent

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Leeds

22 Jan 2017

Snowflakes and sunflowers in Leeds

By Mark Pullinger

London

Wilde life: The Importance of Being Earnest, the opera

By Matthew Rye, 29 March 2016

Gerald Barry’s deliciously anarchic operatic setting of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest returns to the London stage.

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London

30 Mar 2016

Wilde life: The Importance of Being Earnest

By Matthew Rye

London

A heaven of hell, a hell of heaven: Brecht and Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

By Charlotte Valori, 10 March 2015

From its stunningly filmic opening to its faux-Golgotha finale, the Royal Opera House’s new production of Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny demands our attention.

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London

11 Mar 2015

A heaven of hell, a hell of heaven

By Charlotte Valori

Lyon

Poétique hommage à Benjamin Walter à l'Opéra de Lyon

By Camille Grimaud, 15 March 2016

Tabachnik et Debray signent une œuvre poétique à l'Opéra de Lyon. Puissamment évocateur, Benjamin, Dernière Nuit, nous donne à penser la tension entre mystique et profane qui nous possède tous.

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Lyon

17 Mar 2016

Poétique hommage à Benjamin Walter à l'Opéra de Lyon

By Camille Grimaud